The different approach of Vlhova and Shiffrin, thinking of Levi. Pinturault also downhill?

The Slovakian will focus strongly on the parallel of Lech and on the slalom in Finland (she scored a double in 2020), while the American trains mainly in super-g and downhill at Copper Mountain. The men's cup holder will face the triptychs of Lake Louise and Beaver Creek to compete for points against Odermatt and Kilde also in speed.

Thursday 4 November 2021 5 minutes reading time

Different approaches, also because probably the objectives are not exactly the same, although the holder in office will not want to give up so easily the "coppone" to the great rival and perhaps already the main favorite to the absolute crystal ball. Petra Vlhova and Mikaela Shiffrin travel towards a second part of November already important for the World Cup, but they do it with an approach to opposites. The Slovakian will compete on the 13th of the month in Lech / Zuers, where she won the only seasonal parallel in 2020, then she will return to Levi for the first two slaloms (20-21 November), races that immediately launched her at the top of the overall 12 months ago, with that brace in the days of Shiffrin's return to the track. And what will the American do? Immediately flown to the States after the triumphant start in Soelden, Mikaela is preparing in the Copper Mountain Speed Center, dedicating herself in particular to speed as she wants to do very well in Lake Louise, in the first weekend with descents (two) and super-g , from 3 to 5 December. First there will be the “home” weekend in Killington, with the technical races in Vermont on November 27-28, and precisely the double of Levi where the confrontation with Vlhova and Liensberger is the main course of two already crucial slaloms. It is not certain that the three-time winner of the CdM will compete in Lech / Zuers, given that this block of work at Copper Mountain is fundamental before a series of races that should lead Shiffrin to compete in the two super-gs of Sankt Moritz, al return to Europe after the triptych of Lake Louise. In Canada, but in the weekend before the women, or from 26 to 28 November, there will be Alexis Pinturault: the transalpine has decided, after looking for an encore in Lech / Zuers (in fact he won the last edition of the parallel by beating Kristoffersen in the final ), to compete in the first weekend of speed, with the concrete possibility of participating in the two descents as well, in addition of course to the super-g. He will decide after the rehearsals, as well as the following week in Beaver Creek, when the menu of the three days in Colorado will instead contain two super-gs and a single descent. In the race for the World Cup, in a hypothetical distance comparison with Odermatt and Kilde, it is essential with the new calendar to look for points everywhere, even downhill: a specialty in which the champion from Courchevel has not shown up at the gate since March 2020, when there he tried in Kvitfjell (closed 37th), in the days of the final confrontation with Kilde, a duel interrupted (in favor of the Norwegian) due to a pandemic.

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